Wednesday, December 2, 2009

What does the expression ';Mind your own bees wax'; mean or come from?

There is an absurd story, much repeated on the internet, that 18th-century ladies used to fill in the pockmarks on their faces (this was when smallpox was a common and disfiguring disease)with beeswax, which would melt if the lady sat too near the fire. If someone else warned her about this, she would retort ';mind your OWN beeswax!'; I mention this story only to say that there isn't a shred of truth in it. Though beeswax was often (and still is) a component of cosmetics of all kinds, it was not used as a pockmark filler in this way. And, as Smokey correctly says, the saying is of 1920s origin, a childish garbling of ';mind your own business';.What does the expression ';Mind your own bees wax'; mean or come from?
it means. ';tend to your own business';. it was just something we use to say when we were little (at least i did), i don't know where it came from. but thats what it means.What does the expression ';Mind your own bees wax'; mean or come from?
I always thought it was a slur of mind your own buisness,

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